Website and telephone payments Sunday 19 May
Our website and telephone payment systems are unavailable between 9am and 2pm on Sunday 19 May. You will not be able to pay for any council services on our website or over the phone during this time.
An opportunity for community and voluntary organisations to run services in their local areas.
The community right to challenge gives community and voluntary sector organisations and groups of council staff the right to 'challenge' councils by putting forward an expression of interest in running their services.
A successful challenge would result in a competitive procurement exercise in which the challenger would be able to take part, along with other interested organisations.
We welcome the chance to talk to organisations about the delivery of services and improvements to best meet the needs of service users.
We recognise the valuable role that voluntary and community organisations play in delivering local services and are committed to working closely with them. We welcome informal approaches to discuss options around taking on services, so that wherever possible the formal community right to challenge process should be the last resort. This includes informal approaches from staff to run services without formally invoking the community right to challenge.
An expression of interest can only be accepted from certain types of organisations and requires specific information, as detailed in the statutory guidance . The following are eligible to submit an expression of interest under the right to challenge:
You should contact us to discuss an expression of interest. // Add link